Guidebooks

Here's the guidebooks I read before and during the travel

-"First-Time Europe A ROUGH GUIDE SPECIAL" the third edition, 1998
by Jrry Swaffield

-"THE ROUGH GUIDE TO EUROPE 2001 EDITION" the seventh edition, 2000
It is a thick and heavy book written about every country in Europe.
It was impossible to carry it during travel,
so I separated necessary pages from the book in advance.
If you travel a few countries and want to know them in detail,
choose a different guide book.
When I was in Rome, I saw a man bringing the book.
I was so impressed.
In a hotel, he would do exercises with the book, not dumbbells.

I found one theory related the guidebook.
If they read the same guidebook.
they stay the same hotel or hostel and go to the same place to visit,
and same place to eat.
It means if you met somebody at a youth hostel in Naples,
you might meet he or she at a hostel in Roma or Florence.
Of course,
there are hundreds of hotels and accommodations in Europe.
But traveler's bible is a guidebook.
They read and depend on it so much.
So if you are tired of seeing the same people
at the different places again and again,
ignore the course the guidebook suggests.

I met a couple of Japanese girls at the hostel in Roma.
They met two boys in Florence and happened to see them again in Roma.
It must be trick of fortune, the girls insisted.
I just thought it was just the trick of guidebook.
Because one of their Mr. Rights told me,
he and I stayed the same hotel in Naples.
Such a coincident is usual.
It is not worth of being impressed.
They just read the same guidebook
and followed the course in the guidebook.